Introduction (Songs of Innocence)
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Introduction is a poem from William Blake's 1789 collection Songs of Innocence and of Experience.
Poem[edit]
Introduction
Piping down the valleys wild
Piping songs of pleasant glee,
On a cloud I saw a child,
And he laughing said to me:
"Pipe a song about a Lamb!"
So I piped with merry cheer.
"Piper. pipe that song again."
So I piped: he wept to hear.
"Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe:
Sing thy songs of happy cheer."
So I sang the same again.
While he wept with joy to hear.
"Piper, sit thee down and write
In a book that all may read."
So he vanished from my sight
And I plucked a hollow reed.
And I made a rural pen.
And I stained the water clear,
And I wrote my happy songs
Every child may joy to hear.
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